Does the winter come to love us?

Welcome new winter
Red wax on the white one
Welcome new winter
In this warm house the last one

And I think to all the candles
Burnt on this windowsill
To celebrate the new light
Year after the year

Celebrating the miracle
That through the darkness makes light
So that the darkest point
Is also the spark of the light

I remember all the songs
Written here on this desk
In front of the cold fields
Under this sky of tears

Does the winter come to love us
With its brilliant silver nights
Or it will bring iced water
On our instinct to survive?

And my hope it is for tonight
To touch the upcoming light
To discover if I’m enough
To start alone this new life

Welcome new winter
With my blood I bless my new house
‘cause this is the season
Birds used to build the new nests

But the passage is not
Easy as I have thought
And the courage I hope
To find also in the frost

Does the winter come to love us
With its brilliant silver nights
Or it will bring iced water
On our instinct to survive?

And my hope it is for tonight
To touch the upcoming light
To discover if I’m enough
To start alone this new life

(Alban Arthan - Winter Solstice - 2011)